Psychological Health and Safety Consultancy Services
Consulting services for businesses that want to create healthier, safer and more efficient and innovative workplaces.
Work Health and Safety laws require employers to manage risks from hazards, including work-related physical and psychosocial hazards.
A psychologically safe and healthy workplace impacts productivity. Workplaces with poor psychological health and safety incur statistically greater economic costs due to lost productive time compared to workplaces with a strong psychosocial safety climate. These workplaces do not happen by chance. We can assist you identify, minimise, control and/or eliminate these hazards.
Psychological health and safety consulting services across Perth and beyond
At Working Life, we offer specialised consultancy services for businesses around Australia. As subject matter experts in psychological health and safety, we'll provide comprehensive, tailored assessment, advice and guidance to enhance leadership capability, organisational effectiveness and employee well-being.
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Psychosocial hazards can cause psychological and physical harm. On average, work-related psychological injuries have longer recovery times, higher costs and require more time away from work. Our Psychosocial hazard risk assessment processes identify hazards, determine risk, and then map and review controls. We do so using a risk-based approach. Working Life will assist you develop a Psychological Health and Safety Framework ensuring you achieve open and honest leadership, fair and respectful culture, good job design, employee development and workload management.
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Psychological safety is a co-created and shared belief held by team members that they can freely express their ideas, speak up if they have questions, take risks and make mistakes – all without the fear of negative consequences. In other words, psychological safety is felt permission for candour.
Leaders who foster psychological safety will be more capable of having important conversations in the moments that matter. This might mean noticing, naming and addressing harmful behaviours.
Teams that foster psychological safety will be better resourced to ask for help, raise concerns and contribute ideas. This helps to address potential risk-taking behaviours early and openly, assisting in reducing and correcting psychosocial hazards.
Organisations that foster psychological safety empower teams with productive and supported interpersonal dynamics rather than climates driven by impression management. This enables greater team effectiveness and greater personal well-being.
Our consultancy services include the thorough assessment of team dynamics and interactions through conducting surveys to measure engagement and identify issues. We provide detailed feedback to teams, leaders and organisations regarding our findings, including personalised recommendations, helping to foster a psychologically safe work environment.
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Having the right talent to match organisational needs is crucial.
Our pre-employment psychometric testing is different to others in the market. We identify cognitive job demands, then use evidence-based assessments targeted at specific roles. These assessments identify abilities and temperament, allowing employers to determine a candidate’s suitability for the identified role. Over many years, we have developed robust and proven tools that identify a candidate's suitability for nominated roles.
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We’re all human. We all make mistakes and forget things. Our attention span is limited. We overlook key information when making decisions. We get distracted, bored, tired or preoccupied. We mishear and misunderstand. These are as much a part of human life as breathing and sleeping. Human factors are concerned with understanding and managing people's capabilities and limitations. This involves the application of scientific knowledge and principles – as well as lessons learned from previous incidents and operational experience – to optimise health, safety, well-being, overall system performance and reliability. Rather than trying to change the human condition, we help employers design activities and create processes and procedures in ways that take human imperfection into account.
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We will use the Integrated Model of Mental Health to ensure your workplace protects against risks to employee mental health, promotes wellness and the positive effects of work, and supports employees with poor mental health. We not only help workplaces manage factors that can harm mental health, but will also develop your workplace to ensure positive mental health which is known to improve productivity, improve commercial outcomes, help attract and retain staff. Let us show you how investing in mental health has a positive return on investment.
Workplace well-being
Workplace well-being plays a large role in promoting and maintaining our mental health. Research shows that mentally healthy workers are more productive and less likely to take sick leave. Workplace well-being creates a positive and productive environment where people actually want to come to work. Working Life can work with you to enhance work performance and productivity, improve the company’s bottom line, improve well-being, help recovery and attract (and keep) talented people.
Mental illness is now the leading cause of sickness, absence and long-term work incapacity in Australia. It is important that we feel mentally well, healthy, safe and valued so all of us can perform at our best and flourish.
Consultancy Process
Here are the steps to get started with Working Life’s consultancy services:
Contact us to explain your needs. We’ll then meet with you to gain further context and understand your unique challenges.
We align your requirements with our services and determine the best next steps.
We provide a project scope and develop an implementation plan based on our discussions.
We implement the project, ensuring regular reviews and collaborative engagement throughout the process.
Why choose Working Life as your dedicated psychological health and safety consultants?
As experts in workplace psychological health and safety, the team at Working Life are committed to helping organisations like yours achieve their goals while promoting employee well-being. With over 20 years of experience in the field, we have the expertise to support you.
